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So I did not make the trek to Fonda on Wednesday to watch the court-supervised counting of absentee and affidavit ballots in the 46th State Senate District, where Republican Assemblyman George Amedore and Duanesburg Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk are arguing over 887 ballots.

But a Democratic source watching the proceedings said the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Guy Tomlinson, is continuing to reject roughly half of the objections. (Most of them were lodged by the GOP; Amedore holds a 111-vote lead, but Democrats are bullish that if all the votes are counted, Tkaczyk will win.)

Tomlinson ruled that 10 of the 29 disputed ballots in Montgomery County should be counted. He ordered 21 of the 42 disputed ballots from Albany County be eventually counted; four ballots were put on hold for later review.

This process is dragging. There are still two more counties to consider — Greene and Ulster — but they together account for a vast majority of the overall objections. Counting of both area’s ballots should stretch into next week.

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